Live from the fugly files

[norsegirl]

I got a flyer for a clothing store this week. Let's just say the 70s called and they want their fashion back.

No one should ever buy anything called a "romper" or a "jumper" after they are let's say 7. Though even at 7 I think you could count on having your ass handed to you on the playground if you wore one.

This charming example is a "romper":


Jason thought this "jumper" was just slightly uglier than the "romper":


"Classic Plaid" my ass. If you aren't 70 and hitting the club house after a rousing 9 holes of golf, you have no business sporting plaid shorts.


And finally, the piece de resistance on the back cover was this charming party dress fresh out of the early 90s. I guess I should be thankful that they've paired it with hair from a different decade. The 70s Farah flip isn't great, but it beats the pants off the hairsprayed wave of bangs that marked pre-teen fashion in the early 90s.


Jason commented that this flyer really was counting on buff models more than wearable fashion to sell their clothes. I really hope no one is clueless enough to buy this unflattering stuff because I don't think my eyes could take seeing it again. And yes, I had to share my pain with everyone.

In other news, Ravelympics is going well. I've finished a sweater for Georgia (need to block it and then I'll get a picture of her in it). I almost finished a pair of booties for her (just need to weave the ends in on one bootie). And because I couldn't find a bootie pattern I liked I ended up designing my own and posting it as a free pattern on Ravelry. In the first 24 hours it was posted it was added to 17 queues and favourited 60 times *warm fuzzies*. I wasn't planning on doing any design projects, but there ya go. Now I'm just wrapping up a scarf that I think will turn out too short. We'll see what it's like once it's finished and blocked. I may be able to stretch it into a useful shape. Or I may have to go hunting for another source for more of the same yarn. This was one of the balls I pillaged from the closing of a local yarn shop last week and it was the last one in that shade. It didn't even have the correct label on it, so who knows it might have not been a full ball either as someone may have used a bit and returned it. Ah well, for $4 I can't really complain much.

Comments

[much-ado.livejournal.com]

actually, those plaid golf shorts have been "Campus de Rigeur" for as long as i can remember, even over the last three years i've been more frequently on campus to see them.

[eve-the-just.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I never saw them in the 7 years I was in school. I don't really remember guys wearing shorts to be honest, which leads me to believe they must have been something really blah and overlookable, like khakis.

I also didn't tend to be in school much during the summer though. I only took one summer course and it was over my "extended lunch hour" so I was bombing on to campus and running out as soon as class was out, not stopping to socialize or watch hot guys stroll across the lawns.

I still stand by my claim that the hotties in the ad look hot despite the shorts, not because of them. Though the cut ain't bad. And of the looks in the flyer, those are certainly the least offensive. There was also a two-page spread of Daisy Dukes and some hideous tie dyed sack-dress things. Fugly abounds!

[much-ado.livejournal.com]

yeah, i can't argue about the rest of the FUgly, i can just praise the PTBs that i will be off campus by the time the weather for such stuff rolls around and won't have to see it in the flesh, as it were :-P

[ethnowoman.livejournal.com]

Now that I see pics, I realize I saw one (a romper) in a shop window here in Montreal the other day. I remember looking at it thinking you'd have to be like 95 pounds to wear it. I think the model was anorexic.

[eve-the-just.livejournal.com]

Yup. You have to be 95 lbs to wear it, and even then, why would you? Isn't the goal to pick something that makes you look good rather than something where the best you can say is "well it isn't UNflattering".

[eliskimo.livejournal.com]

No one should ever buy anything called ... a "jumper" after they are let's say 7.

Unless they are in Australia, of course, where a "jumper" is knitted pullover with sleeves. :)

Actually, I've also heard the term "jumper" applied to a simple style of pinafore-type overdress ... kind of like the enclosed version of a Norse apron dress. Depending on length, fabric, and styling details, I could see wearing something like that as an adult, over a plain T-shirt, say.

[utsi.livejournal.com]

grades 7&8 phys ed.
cobalt blue rompers with short sleeves. one's name had to be on the back piece on the shoulders.
scarred for life :P

[eve-the-just.livejournal.com]

Grades 6-8 dance class we were required to wear spandex leggings (yes, even the boys). We paired them with HUGE t-shirts (I believe mine was a men's XL). Usually the shirts were worn hanging loose, sometimes the corner was knotted or pulled through those ridiculous plastic rings they sold for pulling the corner of your t-shirt through (I shit you not, they had no other purpose). I am glad we did not have cell phone cameras so when we die and our memories are gone, there will be no evidence of that atrocity.

[utsi.livejournal.com]

i wonder who gets the points for inhumane torture? there has to be some drive behind it

[haworth-attard.livejournal.com]

I'm just amazed the fashion industry hasn't come flocking to you for fashion advice, Bree. :-)